Samuel Attard
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Attard is a senior software engineer and long-time Electron core maintainer with 11 years of experience building desktop runtimes and developer tools. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and an active maintainer of Electron, he has helped shape core APIs and security features used by apps like VS Code, Slack, Notion and Figma. His career spans hands-on C++, JavaScript and runtime work at Slack and Notion, plus deep contributions to Node.js and Chromium integration that improve debugging, module preloading and native module rebuilds. A prolific open-source contributor, he’s implemented features from DMG packaging and contextBridge security to Electron Fiddle GitHub integration and macOS vibrancy fixes. Colleagues rely on him for cross-platform performance, stability and maintainability; less obvious is his knack for smoothing platform-specific edge cases (e.g., NVIDIA/High Sierra GPU fixes and transparent window support) that keep apps behaving consistently for millions of users.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Macleans CollegeBachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Monash University
English
Github Skills (61)
debugging10
uitest10
debug10
javascript10
c-language10
runtimes10
electron10
testing10
css10
hot-module-replacement10
typescript10
chromium10
ui-design10
cicd10
webpack10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
MarshallOfSound/electron-devtools-installer
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
An easy way to ensure Chrome DevTools extensions into Electron
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 81 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the development of the `electron-devtools-installer` project. Their work involved refactoring the code to remove extension directories and utilizing the `rimraf` library for directory removal. Furthermore, they added unit tests using `chai` and `chai-as-promised` and set up testing with Travis CI. The user also modified the code to allow the installation of developer tools from the main process.
electronjavascriptchromeextensionsdevtools
MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
A beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 releases, 7 reviews, 1170 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Samuel's contributions focused on enhancing the user experience and functionality of the Google Play Music Desktop Player. They implemented taskbar media controls, including previous/next track buttons, and resolved issues like persistent login. Furthermore, the user added a custom theme feature, enabling users to select a light or dark mode, and improved the stability of the application through the addition of a crash reporter.
electronwindowsmusic-playgoogle-play-musicgoogle-play
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